99 Quotes About Storyteller

Behind almost anything and everything there is an interesting story awaiting its storyteller.

Jimmy said Starlight was the name given to them that got teachin's from Star People. Long ago. Legend goes that they come outta the stars on a night like this. Clear night. Sat with the people and told'em stuff. Stories mostly, about the way of things.""The wisest ones got taught more. Our people. Starlights. We're meant to be teachers and storytellers.

You're the one who taught me that there is truth below the surface of tales. That we can learn courage from them. That they can teach us how to live our lives.

Now and then a small red glow would move abruptly, and expanding light up the fingers of a languid hand, part of a face in profound repose, or flash a crimson gleam into a pair of pensive eyes overshadowed by a fragment of an unruffled forehead: and with the very first word uttered Marlow's body, extended at rest in the seat, would become very still, as though his spirit had winged its way back into the lapse of time and were speaking through his lips from the past.

People want to do business with you because of 'who you are' and 'what you stand for'... not because of 'what you do'."Create your story... publish it online and make sure people will find you when they Google you.

If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story. Hurston understood that. But then she and I write out of despised cultures that on some level we feel we're defending.

The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught.

I must have been chosen because I know it all from beginning to end. I am certainly not the story itself. I am only the grass that tattles on the wind.

In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to.